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and partly described by Mr. A. W. Waters, were purchased 

 from Mrs. H. Tabor. Some Calci-sponges from the English 

 Inferior Oolite, described by Dr. Hinde in his ' ' Monograph of 

 British Fossil Sponges " (Palseontographical Society), were pre- 

 sented by Mr. R. F. Tomes. Nummulitic limestone from Mtirren, 

 Bernese Oberland, was presented by Sir John Lubbock, Bart. 

 (now Lord Avebury) and Mr. R. Etheridge. Gault Foraminifera 

 were purchased from Mr. F. Chapman. 



A large collection of fossil plants from the Coal Measures of 

 Radstock, Somersetshire, was presented by Mr. James McMurtrie. 

 An additional instalment of the Rufford Collection of Wealden 

 plants was purchased. 



Total number of acquisitions, 16,305. 



1895. 



Several important private collections were acquired this year- 

 A large selection of English fossils (except insects) from the 

 collection of Rev. P. B. Brodie, was purchased. English Jurassic 

 and Cretaceous fossils, collected by Mr. W. C. Lucy, were pre- 

 sented by Mr. Edward Power. The collection of the late Mr. 

 J. W. Hulke, chiefly Dinosaurian bones from the Wealden of 

 the Isle of Wight, was presented by Mrs. Hulke. The collection 

 of the late Mr. James W. Davis, chiefly fossil fishes, was pur- 

 chased from Mrs. Davis. Prof. H. A. Nicholson's collection of 

 Stromatoporoids was purchased. Another instalment of the 

 Madeley Collection of Upper Silurian and Carboniferous fossils 

 was purchased from Mr. R. F. Damon. A collection of flints 

 and Mammalian bones, illustrating the Palaeolithic floor at 

 Crayford described in Quart. Journ. GeoL Soc., vol. xxxvi. (1880), 

 was presented by Mr. F. C. J. Spurrell. 



A plaster cast of the calvaria of Pithecanthropus erectus 

 from Java was presented by Dr. E. Dubois. A skull and horn 

 of Rhinoceros antiquitatis from Siberia were purchased from Mr. 

 R. F. Damon. A skull of Titanotherium from the White River 

 Formation of Dakota was purchased from Prof. H. A. Ward. 

 Lower Pliocene Mammalia collected by Dr. Forsyth Major at 

 Olivola, North Italy, were purchased through Mr. F. H. Butler. 

 Remains of Hippopotamus and Aepyornis from Madagascar, 

 collected by Rev. James Wills, were also purchased. 



Another important donation of fossil Reptilia (Cynognathus, 

 Gomphognathm, &c.), collected by Prof. H. G. Seeley in the 

 Karoo Formation of South Africa, was received from the Council 



